School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese Visiting Professors The School of Liberal Arts Antonio Daniel Gómez, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Spanish and Portuguese Emeritus Office: 304 Newcomb Hall Thomas Montgomery, Ph.D., Wisconsin Phone: 504-865-5518 Fax: 504-862-8752 Website: www.tulane.edu/~spanport/ Entering freshmen who have had Spanish or Portuguese in high school are placed at the appropriate level by assessment of their Professors high school records. Language laboratory work is encouraged in Idelber Avelar, Ph.D., Duke 101, 102, and 112, 203 and in certain advanced courses. Spanish and Portuguese 101, 102, and 112 meet five hours a week; all Christopher Soufas, Ph.D., Duke other courses meet three hours per week unless otherwise stated Henry Sullivan, Ph.D., Harvard in the course description. Successful completion of Spanish 203 or Portuguese 203 or placement above the 203 level in one of Associate Professors those languages fulfills the proficiency requirement for Laura Bass, Ph.D., Princeton graduation. After completion of SPAN 203, all students enroll in SPAN 204, which is the prerequisite for the sequence of courses Jean Dangler, Ph.D., Emory beginning at the 300 level. All students must follow the sequence Kathleen Davis, Ph.D., California, Berkeley of courses as described below. Departmental placement can waive all prerequisites. Christopher Dunn, Ph.D., Brown (Chair) Harry Howard, Ph.D., Cornell SPANISH MAJOR Marilyn G. Miller, Ph.D., U. of Oregon The major in Spanish consists of 33 credits (11 courses) to be distributed in the following manner: Tatjana Pavlovic, Ph.D., U. of Washington 300 level (three courses, nine credits) Maureen E. Shea, Ph.D., U. of Arizona [1] SPAN 304 Grammar and Writing in Spanish (prerequisite Assistant Professors SPAN 204 or special permission). SPAN 304 is a prerequisite John Charles, Ph.D., Yale for all other 300 level courses; it may be taken in the same semester as other 300 level courses. Fernando Rivera-Díaz, Ph.D., Princeton [2] One of the following: Lecturers SPAN 313 Introduction to Latin American Culture OR Amy George-Hirons, Ph.D., Tulane University (Language Program Director) SPAN 324 Introduction to Spanish Culture Angeles Pla Farmer, Ph.D., Tulane University [3] One of the following four courses: SPAN 327 Readings in Spanish and Latin American Literature or SPAN 328 Film Todd Price, Ph.D., University of Virginia and Visual Culture in Spanish, or one course in Spanish for Linnette Reed, Ph.D., Tulane University the Professions: SPAN 329 Business and Legal Spanish or SPAN 330 Spanish for the Health Sciences Ari Zighelboim, Ph.D., Tulane University 400 level (five courses, 15 credits) 2 School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese [4-5] SPAN 404 Early Readings in Spanish, 1000-1700 AND NATIVE AND HERITAGE SPEAKERS SPAN 405 Modern Readings in Spanish,1700-Present. 404 and 405 are prerequisites for all other courses at the 400 level and Native speakers of Spanish begin the major with numbers [4-5] above. These two courses may be taken in any order or above. Additionally, they complete any six courses at the 400 concurrently. Once you have completed one you can register level, as well as the three requirements at the 600 level. Native simultaneously for the second required course and another 400 speakers complete the minor with numbers [4-5] above, plus four level course of your choice. additional 400 level courses. Native speakers may not enroll in courses at the 300 level. Heritage speakers of Spanish must meet [6-8] Three of the following: SPAN 401, 410, 411, 412, 413, 414, with the Director of Undergraduate Studies to determine their 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 423, 425, 426, 427, 428, 435, placement in the program. 442, 443, 451, 452 STUDY ABROAD 600 level (three courses, nine credits) All majors and minors in Spanish are strongly encouraged to [9-10] Two electives participate in Tulane’s language-intensive Study Abroad [11] SPAN 685. Open only to graduating seniors. Programs. Prior to their participation, majors and minors must complete at least SPAN 304, although the ideal study abroad All courses in the major must be taken in sequence, although two candidate should have fulfilled the three major and minor sequential classes may be taken simultaneously. Students may requirements at the 300 level. not receive credit for courses out of sequence. Two courses, one in numbers [6-8] and one in [9-10], must treat pre-twentieth- For Spanish majors who study abroad: century periods. Two out of three 600 level courses must be taken on campus in The following courses satisfy the pre-twentieth-century the department. requirement: For Spanish minors who study abroad: 400 level: 414, 423, 428, 442, 443 6 credits (2 classes at 300 level or above) must be taken on 600 level: 609,622, 623, 625, 626, 627, 633, 641, 643, 644, 651, campus in the department. 672, 681 PORTUGUESE MAJOR Other courses may also apply with departmental approval. Students majoring in Portuguese must complete ten courses (30 Students with a double major in another department complete 30 credits) beyond the 200 level. All majors must take at least three credits or ten courses in the major, with a reduction of one 600-level courses except for Junior Year Abroad students, who 600level course in [9-10]. Majors may receive credit for one are required to take two 600-level courses in the department. course taught in English. SPAN 685 must be taken in the department. PORTUGUESE MINOR A minor in Portuguese consists of 15 credits above the 200 level, SPANISH MINOR at least one of which must be at the 600 level The courses should The Spanish minor consists of 18 credits (six courses), which are be selected in consultation with the major adviser and according constituted by numbers [1-3] above, plus any other three 400 to the interest of the student, whether in language, literature and level courses. Students are encouraged to take 404 and 405. culture, or a combination. Minors may not receive credit for courses taught in English.

3 4 School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese SPANISH pronunciation, vocabulary acquisition, and a review of Spanish grammar and syntax. SPAN 101 Introductory Spanish I (4) Staff. Prerequisite: departmental placement only. The overall SPAN 304 Grammar and Writing in Spanish (3) goal of this course is developing proficiency in the 4 language Staff. Prerequisite: SPAN 204 or special permission. SPAN 304 skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) essential to is a prerequisite for all other 300 level courses; it may be taken in communicative language learning. The course uses a task-based the same semester as other 300 level courses. Not open to native approach which provides the learner with opportunities to use the speakers. Analysis and practice in the written language. With language interactively. addition of the registration number Spanish 388 Writing Practicum, this course fulfills the college intensive-writing SPAN 102 Introductory Spanish II (4) requirement for Spanish major. Staff. Prerequisite: for students who have completed 101 at Tulane; other introductory students must enroll in 112. SPAN 313 Introduction to Latin American Culture (3) Continuation of SPAN 101. The overall goal of this course is Prof. Avelar, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-Díaz, Prof. developing proficiency in the four language skills (listening, Charles. Prerequisite: SPAN 304 or special permission. Not open reading, speaking, and writing) essential to communicative to native speakers. Introduction to the cultural diversity of Latin language learning. The course uses a task-based approach which America through the study of contemporary literary, social, provides the learner with opportunities to use the language political, and popular culture trends as observed by selected interactively. literary figures, intellectuals, and artists. SPAN 112 Intensive Introductory Spanish (4) SPAN 324 Introduction to Spanish Culture (3) Prerequisite: departmental placement only. In the place of SPAN Prof. Davis, Prof. Soufas, Prof. Bass, Prof. Dangler. Prerequisite: 101 and SPAN 102. The overall goal of this course is developing SPAN 304 or special permission. This course offers the proficiency in the four language skills (listening, reading, intermediate student a brief introduction and survey of Spanish speaking, and writing) essential to communicative language culture beginning during the earliest moments of the Spanish learning. The course uses a task-based approach which provides nation and continuing through the present, primarily though the learner with opportunities to use the language interactively. nonliterary means. This discussions is supplemented by cultural readings and visual media to give an overview of Spanish culture. SPAN 203 Intermediate Spanish (4) Prerequisite: departmental placement only. Continuation of SPAN 327 Introduction to Literary Analysis (3) SPAN 102 or 112. The overall goal of this course is developing Staff. Prerequisite: SPAN 313 or 324. Through a series of proficiency in the four language skills (listening, reading, readings from Latin America and Spain, students receive speaking, and writing) essential to communicative language instruction in literary terminology, vocabulary building, and learning. The course uses a task-based approach which provides strategies for enhanced reading comprehension. Significant the learner with opportunities to use the language interactively. emphasis on the continued development of linguistic skills and The overall goal of this course is developing proficiency in the critical analysis. four language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) SPAN 328 Film and Visual Culture in Spanish (3) essential to communicative language learning. The course uses a Staff. Prerequisite: SPAN 313 or 324. Through a series of film task-based approach which provides the learner with viewings, readings, and access to other visual media from Latin opportunities to use the language interactively. America and Spain, students receive instruction in how to discuss SPAN 204 Spanish Conversation and Composition (3) and analyze visual culture in Spanish. Vocabulary building and Staff. Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or equivalent. This course is strategies for enhanced viewing and reading comprehension are designed to develop oral proficiency in Spanish through the study stressed. Significant emphasis on the continued development of and analysis of recorded, visual, and written texts, as well as a linguistic skills. variety of pair and group activities. Special emphasis is placed on 5 6 School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese SPAN 329 Business and Legal Spanish (3) an introduction to the literature and critical issues of modern Staff. Prerequisite: SPAN 313 or 324. This course studies the Hispanic cultures from 1700 to the present. Students acquire Spanish language as it is used in business and law. It provides fundamental skills in literary and critical analysis, as well as a students with the lexicon related to these topics, as well as with basic understanding of key cultural topics, such as nation- contexts for its usage and practice in the Spanish-speaking world. building, immigration, and women in Hispanic societies. SPAN 330 Spanish for the Health Sciences (3) SPAN 410 Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Staff. Prerequisite: SPAN 313 or 324. This course introduces Culture (3) students to Spanish for the health sciences. Spanish major and Prof. Avelar, Prof. Bass, Prof. Dangler, Prof. Miller, Prof. minors interested in the health professions are encouraged to Pavlovic, Prof. Shea. This course focuses on issues of gender and enroll, along with pre-medical and public health majors and sexuality in Spain and/or Latin America with emphasis on one minors. area or the other depending of the staffing in a given year. It includes consideration of literary and other texts, including SPAN 388 Writing Practicum (1) popular music, art, and cinema. Staff. Corequisite: SPAN 304. Prerequisite: successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement. Fulfills the SPAN 411 Modern Spanish American Literature (3) college intensive-writing requirement for Spanish majors. Prof. Avelar, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-Díaz. Major authors of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries, including SPAN 389 Service Learning (1) í ío, Vallejo, Alfonso Reyes, Borges, Rulfo, Paz, and Staff. Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Students complete a Mart , Dar service activity in the community in conjunction with the content Carpentier. of a three-credit corequisite course. SPAN 412 Social Problems in Spanish American Literature (3) SPAN 404 Early Readings in Spanish, 1000-1700 (3) Prof. Avelar, Prof. Charles, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera- Prof. Bass, Prof. Charles, Prof. Dangler, Prof. Miller, Prof. T. Díaz. The chief problems of Latin American society as reflected Soufas, Prof. Sullivan. Prerequisite: SPAN 327, 328, 329, or 330. in poetry, short fiction, essay, and theatre. Representative works For majors in Spanish 404 and 405 are prerequisites for all other concerning the Mexican revolution; the social status of women, courses at the 400 level and above. These two courses may be Indians and blacks; the life of urban and rural working classes; taken in any order or concurrently. Once you have completed tyranny and political repression. Offered in the fall. one you can register simultaneously for the second required course and another 400 level course of your choice. SPAN 404 is SPAN 413 Topics in Spanish American Literature (3) an introduction to the literature and critical issues of early Prof. Avelar, Prof. Charles, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera- Hispanic cultures until 1700. Students acquire fundamental skills Díaz. Readings in Spanish American stories, essays, and poems, in literary and critical analysis, as well as a basic understanding focusing on a topic of historical and cultural importance. Some of key cultural topics, such as medieval convivencia, the social themes: women in Spanish American literature, regionalism and order in early modern Spain, and indigenous concerns in colonial indigenismo, Afro-Latin American writing, testimonio. The Latin America. precise topic varies from year to year. SPAN 405 Modern Readings in Spanish, 1700-Present (3) SPAN 414 Introduction to Colonial Letters (3) Prof. Avelar, Prof. Davis, Prof. Miller, Prof. Pavlovic, Prof. Shea, Prof. Charles. This course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century Prof. C. Soufas, Prof. Rivera-Díaz. Prerequisite: 327, 328, 329, or requirement. Introduction to the literary monuments and cultural 330. For majors in Spanish 404 and 405 are prerequisites for all history of colonial Spanish America (1492-1815), with special other courses at the 400 level and above. These two courses may focus on the relationship between first-person narration and be taken in any order or concurrently. Once you have completed Spanish legal traditions. Cultural icons of the colonial period to one you can register simultaneously for the second required be studied include Hernán Cortés, Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, course and another 400 level course of your choice. SPAN 405 is Catalina de Erauso, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Carlos de 7 8 School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese Sigüenza y Góngora, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier. Visual texts SPAN 420 The Historical Novel of Latin America (3) and films to complement Spanish readings. Prof. Charles, Prof. Rivera-Díaz. Study of recent works by Latin America’s premier novelists that considers how these writers SPAN 415 Spanish Literature of the 20th Century (3) articulate modern cultural identities by narrative the lives of Prof. Davis, Prof. Pavlovic, Prof. C. Soufas. Selections from the iconic figures of the colonial past. Contemporary essays and writings in all genres from the Generation of 1898 to the present. selections from colonial texts are also discussed. Authors include SPAN 416 Afro-Hispanic Literatures and Cultures (3) Arenas, Carpentier, Fuentes, García Márquez, Lobo, Posse, Prof. Dunn, Prof. Miller. This course examines history, literature, Vargas Llosa. Does not fulfill colonial-nineteenth century Latin and culture of Afro-Latin Americans from the colonial period up American requirement. to the present. Throughout the course, students read articles SPAN 423 Visual Culture in Golden Age Spain (3) concerning slavery, race relations, Afro-Atlantic religions, music, Prof. Bass. This course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century and Black political movements in Latin America. These readings requirement. This course studies the cultural role of images, provide socio-cultural context from the analysis of selected largely painting, in Spain during the period 1500-1700. Topics literary texts. explored include: the pictorial use of mythological themes in the SPAN 417 Spanish Film (3) projection of imperial power, the importance of portraiture in the Prof. Pavlovic. The development of the cinema in Spain from its legitimization of the Spanish monarchy, the art market and the origins to the present. Contextual topics such as the effects of social status of the artist. While painting is our main focus, we civil war and censorship are discussed. Emphasis on a theoretical also examine other visual documents such as maps and read approach to the medium, with close analysis of individual films literary works that illuminate the functions of images in the by directors such as Buñuel, Saura, Erice, and Almodóvar, period. Same as ARHS 323. among others. SPAN 426 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (3) SPAN 418 Mexican Cultural Studies (3) Prof. Howard. A detailed investigation of the speech sounds of Prof. Shea. Introduction to multiple aspects of Mexican culture Spanish, their organization, and their proper articulation. Practice from independence to the present. Students study a variety of both in class and with recorded material. forms of cultural production, ranging from literature, film, music, SPAN 427 Iberoamerican Dialectology (3) and art, to its cooking and comics to form as complete as possible Prof. Howard. Survey of the varieties of Spanish spoken in Spain, a vision of Mexico’s complex and multifaceted culture. Students Latin America, and the United States. We look at variation in examine mainstream notions of national identity, while at the pronunciation and grammatical usage, such as the tu/usted/vos, as same time interrogating them by considering questions of gender, nder, and social class. race, class, sexuality, and region. well as variation by age, ge SPAN 428 Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries (3) SPAN 419 Introduction to Latin American Film (3) Prof. Davis. This course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century Prof. López, Prof. Miller. Class conducted in English but some requirement. An introductory survey of the principal literary films may not be subtitled. The development of the cinema in movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries. Only the Latin America from its arrival as an imported technology to the e various literary genres are present. Films studied in relation to the sociopolitical outstanding works and authors of th environment and emphasis placed on close analysis as well as a discussed. contextual understanding of the material. Topics to be discussed SPAN 435 Topics in Spanish Literature and Culture (3) include the struggle to create national film industries, the “art Prof. Davis, Prof. C. Soufas, Prof. Bass, Prof. Dangler, Prof. film” and New Cinema movements, and recent trends in Sullivan. A topics course on the literature and culture of Spain. countries such as Mexico and Argentina. Same as COMM 419. Possible themes include science and literature, construction of gender and sexuality, revolution and repression, honor and violence, popular culture, satire, and metanarrative. 9 10 School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese SPAN 442 Introduction to Multicultural Medieval Iberia (3) SPAN 600 Independent Studies (1-3) Prof. Dangler. This course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century Staff. Prerequisites: 400-level sequence and departmental requirement. Introduction to the cultural issues of medieval Iberia approval. from the eighth century to 1500. Students read a variety of SPAN 601 Methods of Teaching Spanish and Portuguese (3) medieval stories, miracles, and historical documents in order to Prof. Amy George-Hirons, Prof. Howard, . Prerequisite: 400- actively discuss Iberia’s diverse Jewish, Muslim, and Christian level sequence. A general survey of applied linguistics, teaching communities, and to engage with such topics as courtly love, and testing methodology, and language laboratory use. health and healing, pilgrimage, the “reconquest,” and medieval work. SPAN 602 Research Methods and Bibliography (3) Prof. Sullivan. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. A basic SPAN 443 Literature of the Golden Age (3) undergraduate introduction to the theory and praxis of writing Prof. Bass, Prof. Sullivan. This course satisfies the pre-twentieth- term papers, Senior theses, or longer research projects according century requirement. Readings and discussions of selected to the norms of the Modern Language Association Style Sheet. dramatic, poetic, and prose works of the Siglo de Oro by Emphasis on bibliographical documentation, methods of citation Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón, Quevedo and annotated bibliographies. The course also includes a and Góngora. panoramic introduction to contemporary literary theory and SPAN 451 Hispanic Cities (3) methods of literary analysis (neo-positivism, formalism, Prof. Avelar, Prof. Dangler, Prof. Miller, Prof. Pavlovic, Prof. phenomenology, reception theory, psychoanalytic criticism, Bass, Prof. Rivera-Díaz. This class explores the history, artistic feminism, Marxism, post-colonialism, cultural studies). production, literature, and cultural issues related to a Hispanic SPAN 606 Bilingualism in the Hispanic World (3) city, such as Buenos Aires, Madrid, Mexico City, or Seville. In Prof. Howard. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This course is to an effort to investigate the city in a broad national and teach students about the sociology of language from specific international context, the course connects an urban area to cases of language content and bilingualism in the Spanish- important events and sites in Latin American and Spain. Taught speaking world. Student learn about Spanish in many varied in rotation by different faculty in the department, the focus on a bout first and second language particular city changes with the professor. social settings, as well as a acquisition; language maintenance, shift, and death; code SPAN 452 Spanish Cultural Studies (3) switching; speech production and processing; and bilingual Prof. Dangler, Prof. Bass, Prof. Pavlovic, Prof. Davis. Spanish education and language policy. cultural studies applies interdisciplinary approaches to the study SPAN 608 Special Topics in Applied Linguistics (3) of popular and mass cultural forms. Depending on the instructors’ Prof. Howard. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. The purpose of specialization, the course may encompass various chronological this course is to assist future teachers interested in second periods or special themes. In addition to the specifics of language learning and teaching, both in terms of theoretical individual syllabi, all classes explore the role of culture in nation ractical implications. Subject varies every semester. formation, the organization of leisure time through the culture issues and p industry, culture as a site of power, concepts of high and low SPAN 609 Indigenous Peoples of the Colonial New World (3) culture, and how various cultural systems cut across boundaries Prof. Charles. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This course of class, race, religion, and gender. satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. An examination orialized and debated the SPAN H491, H492 Independent Studies (1-3) of early colonial writings that mem status of American peoples and cultures. Ethnographic accounts Staff. Prerequisites: departmental approval. of European and Creole authors are read together with indigenous SPAN H499-H500 Honors Thesis (3, 4) testimonies, with focus on topics such as: noble savagery, the Staff. Requires approval of department and Honors Committee. debates on the ‘just’ causes for military conquest, European

11 12 School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese perceptions of indigenous languages and religious practices, and short story of Spanish America with emphasis on major authors the confrontation between oral tradition and written culture. such as Borges, Cortázar, Onetti, Rulfo, Carpentier, García Márquez, Silvina Ocampo and others. SPAN 610 Literary Theory (3) Prof. Avelar, Prof. Davis, Prof. Miller, Prof. Pavlovic, Prof. C. SPAN 619 Avant-Garde Movements in Latin America (3) Soufas, Prof. Sullivan, Prof. Rivera-Díaz. Prerequisite: 400-level Prof. Avelar. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This course sequence. An introduction to modern theories of literary analysis. surveys the avant-garde movements in Spanish America and Readings consist of primary texts in the schools of thought to be Brazil, focusing on the period from 1916 to 1935. Some of the studied, which may include formalism, stylistics, semiotics, movements to be examined include Huidobro’s creacionismo, reader-oriented approaches, structuralism, deconstruction, ultraismo, Brazilian modernismo and verdeamarelismo, Mexican feminism, poststructuralism, queer theory, and postcolonial estridentismo and the “Contemporáneos” group and the impact in studies. Latin America of surrealism and other European avant-garde movements. Readings in both Spanish and Portuguese, and the SPAN 611 Foundations of Colonial Spanish American class is taught in both languages, but fluency in both languages is Literature (1492-1830) (3) not expected. Same as PORT 619. Prof. Bass, Prof. Charles, Prof. Miller. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence; satisfies pre-twentieth-century requirement. SPAN 620 Recent Spanish American Novel (3) Examination of literary, historical, and legal texts written in Prof. Avelar, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-Díaz. Spanish America, from 1492, the year of Columbus’s arrival to Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. A study of the major the New World, to 1830, the beginning of the independence achievements and experiments in the contemporary Spanish period. The origin and development of the field of colonial American novel. literary studies also considered. Visual texts and films to SPAN 621 The Essay in Spanish America (3) complement Spanish readings. Prof. Avelar, Prof. Charles, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera- SPAN 614 The Literature of Central America (3) Díaz. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. A panoramic view of the Prof. Shea. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. Representative essay in Spanish America. The leading authors (Bello, Sarmiento, literary figures of the six Central American countries, including Hostos, Martí, Rodó, Mariátegui, Borges, Castellanos, Ferré, Paz Darío, Asturias, Cardenal, Alegría, and Cuadra. and others) are studied with emphasis on their contributions to SPAN 615 The Literature of the Spanish Caribbean (3) the genre. Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. With SPAN 622 Chronicles and Epics of Spanish Conquest (3) emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries, the course Prof. Bass, Prof. Charles, Prof. Miller. Prerequisite: 400-level traces the literary development of the Spanish Antilles (Cuba, sequence; satisfies pre-twentieth-century requirement. This Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico) through the works of Heredia, course examines the ways in which the discovery and conquest of Hostos, Villaverde, Martí, Avellaneda, Palés Matos, Guillén, America were narrated, with special focus on the relationship Bosch, Marqués, Carpentier, Lezama Lima, Cabrera Infante, between early modern historiography, legal traditions, and Sarduy, L. R. Sánchez, and Ferré, among others. rhetorical standards and practices. Chronicles and epics of the Spanish colonial era are evaluated in relation to Renaissance SPAN 617 Modernism in Spanish American Literature (3) humanism and philosophy, Spanish colonial language policy and Prof. Avelar, Prof. Miller. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. ericas and Native Study of the modernist movement through the works of Martí, linguistic theory, the status of the Am í Americans in natural and moral history, and debates concerning Gutiérrez Nájera, Casal, Silva, Dar o, Rodó, Agustini and others. the justice of imperial conquest and governance. SPAN 618 Contemporary Spanish American Short Story (3) SPAN 623 El Barroco de Indias (3) Prof. Avelar, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-Díaz. Prof. Bass, Prof. Charles, Prof. Miller. Prerequisite: 400-level Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. A study of the contemporary sequence; satisfies pre-twentieth-century requirement. 13 14 School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese Assessment of the Baroque in Spain’s American viceroyalties SPAN 641 Don Quijote (3) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in its relation to Prof. Bass, Prof. Sullivan. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This contemporary European literary practices, political culture, and course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. religious values. Readings of works by Europeans (Góngora, Discussions of Don Quijote in its entirety in the context of the Quevedo, Calderón de la Barca, Gracián) as well as Americans of intellectual and cultural tendencies of the Siglo de Oro and European descent (Balbuena, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Espinosa modern critical approaches. Medrano, Peralta Barnuevo). Also considered are modern re- SPAN 643 Drama of the Golden Age (3) interpretations of the place of the Baroque in Spanish America’s Prof. Bass, Prof. Sullivan. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This cultural tradition (Picón Salas, Lezama Lima, Paz, Sarduy). course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. SPAN 625 La Ilustración: Spanish Literature of the Discussions of the plays of Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, 18th Century (3) Tirso de Molina, Ruiz de Alarcón and other dramatists in the Prof. Davis. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This course context of modern critical studies. satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. This course SPAN 644 Poetry of the Golden Age (3) examines Spanish literature of the 18th century. There is Prof. Bass, Prof. Sullivan. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This special emphasis on the attempts of the Ilustrados to direct and course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. regulate cultural production and the popular resistance to such Discussions of the pivotal movements represented by the poetry attempts. of Boscán, Garcilaso, Luis de León, Santa Teresa, San Juan de la SPAN 626 Spanish Novel of the 19th Century (3) Cruz, Lope de Vega, Góngora, and Quevedo. Prof. Davis. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This course SPAN 645 Spanish American Theatre (3) satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. The development Prof. Miller. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. Main tendencies of of the novel in the nineteenth-century, its different forms and the contemporary Spanish American theatre with emphasis upon literary trends: romanticism, realism, naturalism. Special li, Marqués, Solórzano, Buenaventura, attention is paid to Fernán Caballero, Alarcón, Valera, Palacio such writers as Usig Valdés, Pereda, Galdós, Pardo Bazán, Alas, Blasco Ibáñez. Arrufat, Piñera, Garro, and Chocrón. SPAN 646 Contemporary Spanish American Poets (3) SPAN 627 Spanish Romanticism (3) Prof. Avelar, Prof. Miller. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. The Prof. Davis. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This course poetry in Latin America after modernismo. Special attention in satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. This course each semester the course is offered is given to the work of four or examines Spanish romanticism in the context of European trends. five poets selected from among Vallejo, Huidobro, Agustini, Special attention is given to the economic and political upheavals Storni, Borges, Neruda, Parra, Paz, Guillén, Mistral, Cardenal of the early nineteenth-century and the connection of these to the a Lima. privileging of the individual subject. and Lezam SPAN 651 History of the Spanish Language (3) SPAN 633 Spanish Prose of the Golden Age (3) Prof. Dangler, Prof. Howard. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. Prof. Bass, Prof. Sullivan. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This This course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. Lectures Evolution of Castilian from Roman times through the Middle and discussions of Lazarillo de Tormes, Cervantes’s Novelas internal change and outside ejemplares, selections from Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Ages with consideration of Alemán, El Buscón and Los Sueños of Quevedo, and the novels influences. of María de Zayas as well as the writings of Santa Teresa and SPAN 652 Mexican Literature (3) Gracián. Prof. Shea. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. Study of the various tendencies of Mexican literature from the colonial period to the present. Special attention is given to representative authors such 15 16 School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese as Balbuena, Sor Juana, Fernández de Lizardi, Gutiérrez Nájera, Spanish novel has interfaced with trends in Europe and the Azuela, Rulfo, Fuentes, Paz, Garro and others. Americas; theoretical selections from formalism to post- structuralism are also discussed. SPAN 653 Literature of the Andean Countries (3) Prof. Charles, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-Díaz. Prerequisite: 400- SPAN 668 Spectacle and Popular Culture in Spain level sequence. Representative works from Peru, Bolivia, Since 1939 (3) Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, with special emphasis on the Prof. Pavlovic. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This course twentieth-century. Study of such authors as the Inca Garcilaso, examines the significance of diverse forms of spectacle and Guaman Poma, Isaacs, Matto de Turner, González Prada, popular culture, principally theatre and film but discussion of Mariátegui, Arguedas, Vallejo, Gallegos, Vargas Llosa, García phenomena such as the novela rosa, comic books, or the bolero Márquez, Teresa de la Parra. may also be included, within the changing context of Spain since the Civil War. The role of these media in the formation of a SPAN 654 Literature of the Southern Cone (3) national subject is foregrounded, as are related theoretical issues Prof. Avelar. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. Survey of the such as high culture/low culture and modernism/postmodernism. literature of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile from romanticism to the present. Study of such authors as Sarmiento, SPAN 669 Spanish Poetry and Poetics Since 1939 (3) José Hernández, Blest Gana, Güiraldes, Quiroga, Huidobro, Prof. C. Soufas. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This course Mistral, Neruda, Borges, Bombal, Felisberto Hernández, Silvina examines Spanish poetry published from the Civil War to the Ocampo, Roa Bastos, Donoso, Parra, Eltit. present. While working to situate Spanish poetry within a larger European and American context, the course also considers and SPAN 657 Spanish Poetry and Poetics, 1900-1939 (3) critiques the attempts by critics and creative writers to theorize a Prof. C. Soufas. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. Examines the construct a literary history and canon. evolution of early twentieth-century Spanish poetry, then-current poetical practice and theories of poetry, and accompanying attitudes in literary SPAN 671 Contemporary Fiction in Spanish America criticism, especially canon formation. and Brazil (3) Prof. Avelar. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. A comparison of SPAN 661 Spanish Novel, Theory, and Criticism, 1900-1939 temporary fiction of Spanish America and Brazil. Topics (3) the con vary, but may include: the short story; race, gender and Prof. C. Soufas. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. Examines the nationalism; the regionalist novel; experimental fiction; fiction evolution of the novel in the early part of the twentieth-century, and popular culture. Among the selected authors are Julio with attention given to its relationship to philosophical and Cortázar, Guimarães Rosa, Fonseca, Borges, Clarice Lispector, literary critical writing. Rulfo, Donoso, Icaza, Ramos, Rivera. Reading competence in SPAN 665 Modernism and Spain (3) Spanish and Portuguese to be established by previous course Prof. C. Soufas. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. Examines work or judgment of instructor. Same as PORT 671. Spanish participation in Modernism, the international literary SPAN 672 19th-Century Spanish American Literature (3) movement of the early twentieth-century, with emphasis of Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This Spanish relationships to Modernism in Europe. course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. A study of SPAN 667 The Spanish Novel from Post-War to Post-Franco the literature of the emerging nations in Spanish America, with (3) special attention to new genres such as the anti-slavery novel, Prof. Pavlovic, Prof. C. Soufas. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. gauchesque poetry, and the indigenist novel. Authors include This course studies developments in the novel in Spain from the Bolívar, Bello, Gómez de Avellaneda, Manzano, Sarmiento, 1940s to the present. Special attention is given to the national Hernández, Isaacs, Galván, and Matto de Turner. context during this time, including the experience of dictatorship, transition, and democracy, as well as to the way in which the 17 18 School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese SPAN 673 Women Writers in Spain (3) SPAN 681 Reading Medieval Iberia (3) Prof. Bass, Prof. Dangler, Prof. Davis, Prof. Pavlovic. Prof. Dangler. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This course Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This course covers literature by satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. A study of the women authors from the Middle Ages through the twentieth- literatures and cultures of medieval Iberia through the fifteenth century. Examination of the poetic, prose, dramatic, and century, with a focus on topics that may include Andalusi poetry, cinematic works by women in Spain from a theoretical love in the Libro de buen amor, or medieval manuscript culture. perspective that considers how the writers studied, communicate SPAN 685 Senior Seminar (3) their experiences as women and authors in various historical, Staff. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. This course is a capstone political, social, and artistic contexts. seminar on major authors of the Hispanic literary tradition from SPAN 674 Women Writers of Latin America (3) both Spain and Latin America. Open only to graduating seniors. Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. A SPAN 688 Writing Practicum (1) literary analysis of prose, poetry, and theatre by Latin American Staff. Corequisite: three-credit departmental course. Prerequisite: women tracing the development of intellectual thought in various successful completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement. Latin American societies. Cinematic works included. Special Fulfills the college intensive-writing requirement. attention to the evolution of gender roles in conjunction with the development of a race, class, and ethnic consciousness as SPAN 691, 692 Special Topics (3, 3) reflected in the literature of women. Authors include: Sor Juana, Staff. Gómez de Avellaneda, Matto de Turner, Storni, Agustini, Parra, Castellanos, Ferré, Allende, Eltit, Poniatowska. COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH SPAN 676 Border Studies (3) Note: Majors may take one course taught in English. Minors Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. must take all their courses in Spanish. Consult with the Explores contemporary border theory from an historical department about which courses are appropriate. perspective in the context of the Americas. Examines SPAN 307 Latin American Literature in English Translation postmodern/postcolonial notions of racial and cultural difference (3) and otherness as they play out in nineteenth-century literature. Prof. Avelar, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea. A survey of Spanish Looks at border culture along the US-Mexican border as well as American literary writings of special cultural and historical in other Latin American contexts. interest, for students not prepared to read the Spanish original. SPAN 678 Latin American Cultural Studies (3) Does not count toward the Spanish major or minor. Prof. Avelar, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-Díaz. SPAN 345 Don Quijote in Translation (3) Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. The course is an intensive Prof. Bass, Prof. Sullivan. Conducted in English with readings in survey of Latin American cultural studies. Topics to be studied translation. Not open to majors or native speakers. A study of include: interactions among popular, erudite, and mass cultures; Cervantes’ masterpiece Don Quijote and the two outstanding debates on modernity and postmodernity; relations between picaresque novels, the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes and alphabetic and non-alphabetic writing systems in colonial and Francisco de Quevedo’s Buscón. The works are studied within post colonial contexts; emergence and development of Latin the context of the period, with some emphasis given to their American concepts such as mestizaje, hybridity, transculturation, importance in the development of the modern European novel. heterogeneity; relations between culture and the state; issues of Does not count toward the Spanish major or minor. class, race, and gender in the study of Latin American culture. Theorists to be studies include Néstor García Canclini, José SPAN 461 National Cinemas in Latin America (3) Martín Barbero, Beatriz Sarlo, Nelly Richard, Roberto Schwarz, Prof. López. A detailed historical, thematic, and stylistic analysis Silviano Santiago. of individual national cinemas in Latin America (Cuban cinema, Brazilian cinema, Mexican cinema, for example). Emphasis is 19 20 School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese placed on understanding the development of national cinema a wide variety of texts, including representative works of industries and movements in the context of other social, romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. This economic, political, and aesthetic forces. May be repeated for course may be taken for major or minor credit if written work is credit if the national cinema studied is different. COMM 419 completed in Portuguese. Intro to Latin American Cinema is highly recommended, PORT 461 Brazilian Cinema (3) although not a prerequisite. Same as COMM 461. Prof. Avelar, Prof. López, Prof. Dunn. This survey of Brazilian SPAN 483 Hispanic Literature Topics in English Translation cinema and film criticism covers key phases in national film (3) production including early experiments, the failed Vera Cruz Prof. Avelar, Prof. Charles, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea. A study of enterprise, Cinema Novo, Cinema Marginal, Embrafilme Spanish and/or Latin American literary works in translation productions, and recent film directors include Mário Peixoto, within a specific interdisciplinary topics format based on a Humberto Mauro, Anselmo Duarte, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, central theme or problem. To receive credit toward the Spanish Ruy Guerra, Glauber Rocha, Carlos Diegues, Walter Lima major or minor, all written work and selected weekly readings Junior, Luiz Carlos Barreto, Paulo César Saraceni, Joaquim must be completed in Spanish. Pedro de Andrade, Rogério Sganzerla, Júlio Bressane, Suzana Amaral, and Carla Camurati. PORTUGUESE PORT H491, H492 Independent Studies (1-3) PORT 112 Intensive Portuguese (4) Staff. Prerequisites: departmental approval and completion of Staff. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor required for students proficiency requirement. with no prior experience with the Spanish language. An intensive one-semester introduction to Portuguese with an emphasis on PORT H499, H500 Honors Thesis (3, 4) listening and speaking skills designed to quickly prepare students Staff. Requires approval of the department and the Honors for more advanced study of language, literature, and culture. Committee. PORT 203 Intermediate Portuguese (4) PORT 614 Major Authors of Brazil (3) Staff. Review of fundamental skills taught in previous courses. Prof. Avelar, Prof. Dunn. This course focuses on the literary Introduction to Brazilian literature and culture through plays, production of several canonical authors of Brazil from the short stories, articles, and film. Practice in composition. nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The prose fiction of no more than two or three authors is covered in any given semester. PORT 313 Readings in Luso-Brazilian Literature (3) Selected literary figures for in-depth study may include José de Prof. Davis, Prof. Dunn. A combined survey course of Brazilian Alencar, Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto, Graciliano Ramos, and Portuguese literatures, looking at issues such as realism, João Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, regionalism, and modernism; questions of cultural identities, and Nélida Piñón. relations between high and low culture, representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality. PORT 616 Afro-Brazilians (3) Prof. Dunn. This course provides an introduction to the history of PORT 325 Composition and Conversation (3) Brazilian race relations, the fiction and poetry of black writers Prof. Dunn. Reinforcement of spoken Portuguese and review of from Brazil, and the study of recent Afro-Brazilian cultural and grammatical structures. Short stories and plays serve as the basis social movements. for further development of speaking and writing. Emphasis in dealing with the texts is on their utility for skill practice rather PORT 619 Avant-Garde Movements in Latin America (3) than literary analysis. Prof. Avelar. This course surveys the avant-garde movements in Spanish America and Brazil, focusing on the period from 1916 to PORT 333 Brazilian Literature in Translation (3) 1935. Some of the movements to be examined include Prof. Dunn. A survey of Brazilian literature in translation, Huidobro’s creacionismo, ultraísmo, Brazilian modernismo and focusing primarily on the novel and short story. Students engage 21 22 School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese School of Liberal Arts: Spanish and Portuguese verdeamarelismo, Mexican estridentismo and the artistic production. Genres and cultural phenomena to be covered “Contemporáneos” group, and the impact in Latin America of include samba, choro, baião, bossa nova, protest music, surrealism and other European avant-garde movements. Readings Tropicália, and Mangue Beat, as well as international styles such in both Spanish and Portuguese, and the class is taught in both as rock, reggae, and rap in local context. The study of music languages, but fluency in both languages is not expected. Same as provides the basis for the exploration of issues such as SPAN 619. nationalism, regionalism, developmentalism, authoritarianism, and globalization. PORT 622 The Literature of Brazil (3) Prof. Avelar, Prof. Dunn. In-depth study of Brazilian literature PORT 653 Literature of the Lusophone World (3) from its beginning to the present. Authors: Manuel António de Prof. Avelar, Prof. Dunn. This course provides a survey of the Almeida, José de Alencar, Gonçalves Dias, Castro Alves, literatures and cultures of Portugal, Brazil, and Lusophone Africa Machado de Assis, Aluisio Azevedo, Graciliano Ramos, José using a theme-based approach to explore Trans-Atlantic Lins do Régo, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Manuel connections, tensions, and dialogues within colonial and Bandeira, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Jorge Amado, Carlos postcolonial contexts. Drummond de Andrade, Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector, PORT 671 Contemporary Fiction in Spanish America Antônio Callado, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Rubem Fonseca, Sérgio and Brazil (3) Sant’anna, Roberto Drummond, and others. Prof. Avelar. A comparison of the contemporary fiction of PORT 623 Brazilian Literature and the City (3) Spanish America and Brazil. Topics vary but may include: the Prof. Avelar, Prof. Dunn. Brazilian literature and its production short story; race, gender, and nationalism; the regionalist novel; within an urban environment focusing of issues such as slavery experimental fiction; fiction and popular culture. Among the and race relations, class divisions and spatial marginality, selected authors are Julio Cortázar, Guimarães Rosa, Fonseca, industrialization and labor movements, gender and sexuality, Borges, Clarice Lispector, Rulfo, Donoso, Icaza, Ramos, Rivera. media and popular culture, rural to urban migration, and violence Reading competence in Spanish and Portuguese to be established and criminality. Authors may include Manuel Antônio de by previous course work or judgment of instructor. Same as Almeida, Aluísio Azevedo, Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto, SPAN 671. Mário de Andrade, Patricia Galvão, Marques Rebelo, Nelson Rodrigues, Rubem Fonseca, Caio Fernando Abreu, Patricia Melo, PORT 691, 692 Special Topics (3, 3) Paulo Lins, and Regina Rheda. Staff.

PORT 629 Brazilian Cultural Studies (3) Prof. Avelar, Prof. Dunn. An advanced survey of Brazilian social and cultural critics of the twentieth century including Silvio Romero, Euclides da Cunha, Gilberto Freyre, Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, Guerrero Ramos, Roland Corbisier, Florestan Fernandes, Antônio Candido, Roberto Schwarz, Ferreira Gullar, Silviano Santiago, Luiz Costa Lima, Flora Süssekind, Renato Ortiz, Muniz Sodré, and Marilena Chauí. The course foregrounds historic and contemporary debates in Brazil surrounding nationality, modernity, democracy, and citizenship. PORT 644 Brazilian Popular Music (3) Prof. Avelar, Prof. Dunn. This course offers an in-depth inquiry into Brazilian cultural history through the prism of popular music, often regarded as Brazil’s most accomplished field of 23 24